Grateful to my co-author Nick Haslam for his collaboration and support.

Paper: aclanthology.org/2026.lchange...
Slides: www.changeiskey.org/event/2026-e...

#LanguageChange #LexicalSemanticChange #SemanticChange #WSD #WordSenseDisambiguation #DiachronicNLP #HistoricalNLP #CorpusLinguistics #NLP
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We are celebrating the first publication by our team member Jan Zalega, based on his early student research 👏 Looking forward to more, this time on #ConceptCreep
#academicsky #semanticchange #englishlanguage #englishvocabulary
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#EACL2026 #LChange #LanguageChange #LanguageVariation #ComputationalLinguistics #SemanticChange #DigitalHumanities #NLP #HistoricalLinguistics

OED case study about semantic change research, with the metamorphose of a butterfly to illustrate

Who's ready for another OED case study?

🧠 Professor Chris Smith (Université Caen Normandie) delves into the fascinating world of semantic change—how word meanings evolve across time, culture, and context.

👉 Access the full study: oxford.ly/4n0RrCK

#SemanticChange #Language

AI analyzed 7.9 million speeches and discovered something unexpected about humans A study by McGill University reveals that older adults adopt new meanings of words at almost the same rate as young people.

AI analyzed 7.9 million speeches and discovered something unexpected about humans: www.earth.com/news/ai-disc... #semanticchange

Open-Source Models Generate Definitions for New Word Senses

Open‑source LLMs fine‑tuned on the AXOLOTL'24 shared‑task outperformed closed‑source models in multilingual definition generation for Finnish, Russian and German. Read more: getnews.me/open-source-models-gener... #opensource #llm #semanticchange

#SemanticChange #ComputationalLinguistics #NLP #Psychology #CulturalChange #ComputationalSocialScience #LLMs

#SemanticChange #ConceptCreep #MentalHealth

Come find me @ic2s2.bsky.social for a personal introduction to SIBling!
#ConceptualChange #SemanticChange #ConceptCreep #NLP #CompSocSci #ComputationalSocialScience #PsychBlueSky #ic2s2

Wie verändern sich Wortschatz und Bedeutung? Theresa Schweden hat sich das zum Thema Behinderung näher angeschaut - der Artikel ist open access verfügbar:
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#germanistik #humandifferenzierung #disability #semanticchange

Great example of iconization (pragmatic strengthening), erasure (semantic bleaching), and fractal recursion (???). #semanticchange #linguisticanthropology 🐦🐦

Original post on fediscience.org

We are happy to announce that as part of the project #MetaLing we are also inviting Francesco Periti from #kuleuven. He will tell us about his work on #semanticChange with #LLMs. The event is taking place online tomorrow at 14:30 CEST […]

First up: Thora Hagen on using #LLMs for lexical semantic change annotation asking whether AI can detect meaning shifts in historical texts. #DigitalHumanities #AI #LLM #LexicalSemantics #SemanticChange #CLS

Lockdown, freedom and responsibility - Making Science Public Two years ago, we learned a new word: ‘lockdown’. This was in fact an old word which acquired a new meaning during the Covid-19 pandemic. That new meaning gradually changed over time. Now ‘lockdown’ has more or less lost its meaning and just stands for something to be avoided at all cost or something that ...

This week's post explores the ways in which the word 'lockdown' has changed meaning over the pandemic blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2022... #covid #lockdown #semanticchange